General
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Install or locate the range only in accordance with
the provided Installation Instructions. The range
must be installed by a qualified installer. The
range must be properly connected to the proper
gas supply and checked for leaks. The range
must also be properly connected to the electrical
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Do not wear loose or hanging garments when
supply and grounded.
using the range. They could ignite if they touch an
open flame and you could be burned.
0 Gas fuels and their use in appliances can cause
minor exposures to benzene, formaldehyde,
carbon monoxide, and soot, primarily from
incomplete combustion. Significant exposure to
these substances could cause cancer or repro-
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Use only dry pot holders. Moist or damp pot
holders on hot surfaces could result in burns
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steam. Do not let pot holder touch an open flame.
Do not use a towel or bulky cloth for a pot holder.
It could catch on fire.
ductive harm. Properly adjusted burners with a
blue, rather than a yellow, flame will minimize
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Keep range vents unobstructed.
incomplete combustion, Venting with a hood or
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Do not heat unopened containers. They could
an open window will further minimize exposure,
explode. The hot contents could cause bums and
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Do not store things children might want above the
container particles could cause injury.
range. Children could be burned or injured while
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Use only cookware approved for oven use. Follow
climbing on it.
cookware manufacturer’s instructions, especially
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Do not leave children alone or unattended in area
when using glass or plastic cookware.
where the range is in use. They should never be
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Do not store flammable materials on or near the
allowed to sit or stand on any part of the range.
range. The fumes could create an explosion and/
They could be burned or injured.
or fire hazard.
0 Do not operate the range if it is damaged or not
0 Do not use the oven for storage.
working properly.
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Do not use aluminum foil to line area around
0 Do not use the range for warming or heating the
burners, oven bottom, or any other part of the
room. Persons could be burned or injured, or a
range.
fire could start.
0 Never use a match or other flame to look for a gas
0 Do not attempt to light the oven burner during a
leak. Explosion and injury could result.
power failure. Personal injury could result. Reset
0 Know where your main gas shutoff valve is
the oven controls to the off position if there is a
located.
power failure.
0 Use the range only for its intended use as de-
scribed in this manual.
When usinp the cooktop
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Make sure the cookware you use is large enough
to contain food and avoid boilovers and spill-
overs. Heavy splattering or spillovers left on a
range could ignite and burn you. Pan size is
especially important in deep fat frying.
0 Check to be sure glass cookware is safe for
use on the range. Only certain types of glass,
0 Do not touch surface burners, areas near surface
glass-ceramic, ceramic, earthenware, or other
burners, or interior surfaces of oven. Areas near
glazed cookware are suitable for cooktops
surface burners and interior surfaces of an oven
without breaking due to the sudden change in
become hot enough to cause burns. During and
temperature.
after use, do not touch, or let clothing or other
flammable materials contact surface burners,
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Never leave surface burners unattended at high
areas near surface burners, or interior surfaces of
heat settings. A boilover could result and cause
oven until they have had sufficient time to cool.
smoking and greasy spillovers that could ignite.
Other surfaces of the range, such as the oven
vent opening, the surface near the vent opening,
the cooktop, and the oven door, could also
become hot enough to cause bums.
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